Small Talk Podcast

Kenan and Kray talk to Ayres about digging for records, Mayor Diblasio, surviving the arctic vortex, the Google Panther, bartending at The Rub, ball parties,working with troubled teens, Cusack Shakur, and Ayres plays a tryout DJ set for Chances With Wolves.

Ayres and MERO talk to ESPO about painting on walls, 5 Pointz, interviewing ODB and Onyx for On The Go Magazine, Pokemon pushups, the Euroclub, house music, The Art of Getting Over, garbage bag jackets, corrupt cops and much more.

It’s the special edition Dadchat episode of Small Talk, with Maseo (De La Soul), Smalltown Pete (Smalltown DJs) and DJ NDN (A Tribe Called Red) getting super deep (and hilarious) with DJ Ayres. The four dads talk about their early nicknames, various stages of child-rearing, touring, cussing, touching baby turds with their bare hands, etc. Also: the quality of the recording is not the best but we were recording in a hotel room at an open-bar DJ camp, so deal with it.

In the first half of this epic chat, Maseo tells De La Soul stories, including skipping high school to play demos for Prince Paul; the influence of Stetsasonic, Ultramagnetic MCs and church on the group; learning to sample with a Casio children’s keyboard; a defense of fist fights and much more. Part two of the podcast comes out next week, with Maseo, Pete (Smalltown DJs) and NDN (A Tribe Called Red) shooting the shit on their nicknames, kids, marriage, health care in the US vs Canada, the F word, etc. Also: apologies for the quality of the recording but we were drinking a lot last week, sorry not sorry.

Ayres and Skinny Friedman talk to Scottie B about Baltimore history, music and culture. Unruly Remixes, a 20 track compilation from Scottie B & Shawn Caesar’s Unruly Records which includes much of the music played and discussed on this episode, is out now, for free:

The Unruly Remixes compilation has been a long time in the making – 20 years if you count Blunted Dummies’ seminal “House For All” as the starting point. Scottie B and Shawn Caesar launched Unruly Records in 1994, and the label came to define and ultimately dominate the genre of Baltimore Club music from the late 90s all the way up until present day. For the Unruly Remixes we grabbed four of the biggest, loudest, grimiest Baltimore Club hits and gave them to 16 of our favorite producers in virtually every genre of dance music. From Tittsworth’s dark techno, to DJ Sliink’s signature Jersey Club, to Sam Tiba & Myd (Club Cheval)’s space-age R&B, to Nadastrom’s vibey deep house, to LunyP’s tropical percussion jam, to Volta Bureau’s space disco, this is a collection of wildly creative and compelling club records.

(L-R) Sway, Scottie B, DJ Class, DJ Ayres

Scottie B & DJ Class appeared on Sway in The Morning on Shade 45 / Sirius XM – listen to the mix and interview here. Big shout to DJ Wonder for making that happen!

Spin debuted a mixtape by Scottie B and DJ Ayres, featuring tracks from the compilation and a bunch of other music from our friends who appear on the compilation.

Holy shit it’s been a long time but Small Talk is back! Roofeeo and Jubilee join DJ Ayres and talk about Mister Cee, playing on David Letterman, Jews vs Regular People baseball and Mexican Hand Soccer, 9/11, and shout out Jay Fay in Ohio.

Roofeeo is a drummer, DJ, and producer known for his participation in the Art Punk band The Death Set. He has played for TV On The Radio, Björk, Santigold, Spank Rock, Ninjasonik, and Theophilus London. Follow him on Twitter at @Roofeeo

Jubilee is a DJ and producer who also does the Fireworks mix show on Brooklyn Radio and Mixpak Soundsystem on Radio Lily. Follow her on Twitter at @jubileedj

On Small Talk #13, DJ Ayres talks with Levins and Jubilee about writing a cookbook, hush puppies, Ratchet Mom, the station wallaby, DJ Screw, Wavy Davy B and the Trill Dad movement. Follow Jubilee at @jubileedj and Levins at @levdawg

On this episode of Small Talk, I gab it up with Anna Lunoe,Nina Las Vegas and Puja Patel on Australian radio, smuggling drugs, Disclosure, French Montana vs. Will I Am sampling house music, The-Dream and grabbing your balls.